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Wisconsin man who ordered ballots without consent found guilty of fraud and identity theft

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A jury convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud and identity theft for requesting the ballots of Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent.

Jurors in Racine County on Tuesday found Harry Wait guilty of two misdemeanor election fraud charges and one felony identity theft charge following a two-day trial. He was acquitted of a second count of identity theft.

Wait leads a group that makes false election claims, including that Wisconsin's elections are riddled with fraud and that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 by about 21,000 votes.

Wait admitted in 2022 that he requested Vos' and Mason's ballots to try to prove that the state’s voter registration system is vulnerable to fraud. Wait told The Associated Press at the time that he wasn’t surprised he was charged.

“You got to expect to pay some costs sometimes when you are trying to work for the public good,” he said.

His efforts drew praise from Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson in 2022, who called Wait a “white hat hacker.”

After the verdict, Wait told WTMJ that he “would do it again.”

“I tested the system and the system failed,” he said.

A sentencing date has not been set. Wait’s attorney Joe Bugni did not respond to an email Wednesday asking whether he would appeal.

Wait, 71, faces up to six years in prison on the felony conviction and up to a year in jail on each of the misdemeanor convictions.

His conviction comes after a jury in 2024 found a former Milwaukee election official guilty of misconduct in office after she obtained three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers in 2022. Like Wait, Kimberly Zapata argued that she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the state’s election system.

Zapata was fined $3,000 and sentenced to one year probation.

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You were caught, tried and convicted. The system didn't "fail".

As a new coach I would not like my first year without my teams best player.

I believe that we’re keeping Myles and also believe we should.

It becomes a game.

Win games now or hope you win big because you made the right decisions down the line.

If they were going to trade him. They should have done it before they signed a new deal.

Normally you build around your best players not trade them away unless you are undergoing a rebuild. But sometimes you get characters that think they're the smartest guys in the room and things go sideways.

It never ends.

Myles contract has been restructured. Now there is speculation that once again he will get traded.

No matter that his contract was extended and he agreed.

The media keeps beating this drum. The Crosby to Ravens deal fell through. Now talk about Dallas.

Once again the Parsons deal is brought up and Myles is compared to that deal and what the Browns could expect to get for him.

We have had Myles and have not won. I get that.

But you don't dramatically weaken the defense and expect to get better. IMO you build the team by making smart decisions.

I do not see the Browns trading Myles.

Once baseball begins there is balance in the world.

MLB is a release from the crud.

The season is like a series of Flash Gordon where each night is another episode.

Turn on the game and all is ok.

Guardians will be a fun watch. Lots of young upcoming talent.

My Braves are being disregarded because of early injuries to the pitching staff. Three starters on the IL. They will have to limp along until guys return or trades are made.

I am hoping they can make their run in the second half.

I am just happy that the game is back.

I'm glad I stopped by here to read, for a change. I'm not sure I can agree with this post much more than I do.

There are some caveats and "yeah, but maybe" moments, but ^ that's ^ the nutshell version.

What pisses me off, literally, is that there was never any real exit strategy *if* there was no plan to chop off the head. And no plan can be effective without one.

If there isn't already a new regime lying in wait, you're just spoon-feeding a never-ending cycle. Only thing that changes is being "nuke-ready" will take place on an ever-quickening timetable.

We didn't think this whole thing through very well. We convinced ourselves that overwhelming force and the "epic fury" at which we administered it would be enough. The snake is still slithering.

And now Trump is caught with his pants down. His only hope to avoid "forever war" is to root out the snake by installing a new regime. I'm not sure how that's possible without boots on the ground.

Hmmmm.

BREAKING NEWS: Pete Hegseth Touts 'Historic Recruiting' At The Recruiting Excellence Forum



Effective March 2026, the U.S. Army has officially raised its maximum enlistment age to 42, up from the previous limit of 35, to widen its recruiting pool amid ongoing recruiting challenges. Concurrently, the Army is relaxing its drug policies by removing the requirement for a waiver for recruits with a single conviction for marijuana possession or drug paraphernalia.

There's that new White House math again.

I don't think the military has under performed. It's bombed the crap out of its targets, sunk the navy.

What it can't do is fight a guerilla war without boots on the ground. Iran is vast. They are hunkered down and obviously prepared to fight this sort of war. And they've clearly also thought about strategy, the impact to the US and Israel of hitting the Strait of Hormuz and also hitting it's neighbours.

I think this paragraph by Pit probably sums it up... And it's not a failure of the military because I'd bet my house that many many many individuals warned about what has happened, but Hegseth and Trump in their ego-mania wouldn't listen. Drunk on the previous Iran strike and their military action in Venezuela. Both went off without any blowback or a hitch.

I feel as though Ukraine set the bar on this.

I certainly agree with you that there have been quite a few mishaps but I suppose it's possible I don't see that as unusual as you might. I think that's just a symptom of war as it always has been. I know people probably expected me to jump on the "trash trump train" as it pertains to this but war has always been messy and filled with mishaps.

At least speaking for myself that's why I'm always so skeptical of war and only feel it should be used as a last resort. I don't feel that's the case here.

We seem to have the most expensive military, but Iran has showed us cheap weapons can be more effective in the right circumstances than expensive ones.

Thank you for pointing out the school bombing. A clear miscalculation by our military.

I'm not sure you can chalk up all these examples to leadership... I'm just pointing out that our military has looked uncharacteristically vulnerable. I just wanted to know if others had the same impression.

I will just say this. A military performs as well as its leaders. Proper planning and execution prevent a lot of terrible things from happening. One example is the bombing of that school. At one point in time it had been a military installation but it hadn't been for years. Nobody bothered to check if it was a proper target at the time it was bombed. Instead they depended on old intel without any updates or current verification.

I will not however isolate this to the trump administration. This is not all that uncommon. The thing I find most odd about the current situation seems to be the consistent moving of the goal posts and the mixed messages. In June trump said that Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated and set back decades if not years. In March, the US intelligence community assessed that Iran was “not building a nuclear weapon.”

Yet it was presented that Iran was an "immanent threat". 2+2 does not equal 6. Unless it's the White House version of new math. There is zero evidence to support that Iran was an immanent threat when he decided to attack.

The first time he struck Iran he said our goal was to eliminate their nuclear threat. This time it is their nuclear capability he claimed he obliterated just months before plus destroying their missile capability which is no threat to the U.S., their drones and a regime change.

Now he claims to be in talks with Iran but it's not the new supreme leader while claiming he has achieved a regime change even though it is still being run by the same group that ran it before and the revolutionary guard.

I can't make sense out of any of it because none of it makes any sense.

But just like other examples of our wars in the middle east he grossly underestimated the resolve of the enemy and there was no clear exit strategy.

This is going to sound a certain way that I don't really intend, but I'm curious if others feel the same.

Has anyone else had the thought that our military hasn't really been as impressive as it should have? I'm not saying we're doing a full-on Russia in terms of their flop in Ukraine, but for a relatively short something-other-than-war we've accumulated an uncharacteristically large number of mishaps (Kuwait taking down 3 of our jets with friendly fire, the air-tanker crash, the carrier fire, the F-35 that got hit by AA).

The truth does not reside within him. And the fan boys cheer.

Morning Joe played a clip from trump this morning where he said the following:
We are talking to someone in charge but it’s not the leader.
Iran has already agreed to like 15 points of our plan.
The straight of Hormuz is open.
This has been the most successful military exercise-it’s not a war. It’s an exercise that is done-the fake news says it is a war and it is ongoing. It is not.

None of this except for our military having some success is even remotely true

More Republican pedophile news....................

Gaza Riviera developed by trump family

The most outrageous conspiracy theories about the Biden crime family....

But half a billion dollars placed on the oil markets 15 minutes before Trump makes his announcement about peace talks.... And the fanboys will say nothing. Go figure.

I'll ask again, maybe someone has the stones to put together a thoughtful answer - what does success look like?

And if you can't answer that question - given where we are today (March 25th) would you want US boots on the ground? And a long and protracted war that tires to do more than sink the navy and bomb military sites?

Lastly - if gas prices remain high and close to $4 per gallon - or even over $4 per gallon - how long and how much inflation and damage to the economy are you willing to endure, and to what purpose?

Maybe the republican would have won If he didn't mail on his ballot

Maybe another reason tonight-
In the Fl district that Mar a lago is in, a democrat won the special election tonight.
Trump won this district by 11 and the republican in this district won by 19% in 2024.